Going from VMWare to EC2 is possible – but not seamless. For e.g. if your AWS EC2 instance has additional components (S3 buckets, ELBs in front etc.), those need to be handled manually.

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/amp/latest/userguide/migrate-vms.html#export-instance

Going the other way – from VMWare to EC2 – is smoother – using the VCenter Portal.

https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/vcenter-portal/

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